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eyereach

eyereach noun: the range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

Noun

eyereach (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
    • look, look! is not he blest
      That gets a seat in eye-reach of him? more,
      That comes in ear, or tongue-reach?1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
    • I shoved for the middle of the river on a long downstream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach, I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Forms of eyereach

alternative formeye-reach

Origin of eyereach

From eye + reach.

Questions about eyereach

What does eyereach mean?
Eyereach means the range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
What part of speech is eyereach?
Eyereach is a noun.

Words near eyereach in the dictionary

  1. eyer
  2. eyerape
  3. eyeraped
  4. eyerapes
  5. eyeraping
  6. eyereach
  7. eyering
  8. eyerings
  9. Eyerman
  10. eyeroll
  11. eyerolled

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